Republic Aviation Corp Empty Wood Box 1940s For F84 Jet Fighter US Rare for Sale

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Republic Aviation Corp Empty Wood Box 1940s For F84 Jet Fighter US Rare For Sale

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Republic Aviation Corp Empty Wood Box 1940s For F84 Jet Fighter US Rare:
$198.00

Rare

Empty wood display box

Attic find

Has some shelf wear

Some wear to wood

See photos

As pictured

Sold as is

As pictured

Great display wood box

The new postwar P-84/F-84 jet fighter-bomber returned Republic to profitability. The company built three main varieties of this plane to replace the P-47. The first, the P-84 Thunderjet (changed to F-84 on June 11, 1948), first flew on February 28, 1946. It was the last of Republic's straight-wing jet designs. The Thunderjet was a high-performance aircraft, and briefly set an American speed record, flying at 611 miles per hour (983 kilometers per hour) in September 1946. It kept the record for one day, when a Gloster Meteor flying at 616 miles per hour (991 kilometers per hour) set a new record. The last in the Thunderjet series, the F-84G, could deploy nuclear weapons and was the first fighter capable of in-flight refueling. Used by American forces in Korea, by NATO troops, and by some nonaligned nations, approximately 4,450 Thunderjets were built between 1947 and 1953.